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The history of how the official Nix formatter was successfully established, along with its struggles and lessons. We go over: - How Nix didn't have a formatter for its first 15 years before the first ones were written - How an RFC to standardise the formatter took 3 years, 50 meetings and 600 comments to get accepted - How one of the most active codebases with 40k Nix files and 15k monthly commits got fully reformatted - What problems still exist and what the future of Nix formatting holds about this event: https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon-2025/talk/GCGE7K/